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Past Appearances

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Event: Women in Data Science Chicago 2020

Topic: Better Data Science Team Collaboration with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: March 6, 2020
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab https://widschicago.org/


Event: DC R Conference

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Washington, DC
Date: November 8, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz
https://dc.rstats.ai/2019/dcr/


Event: ODSC West

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python - Interactive Workshop
Location: San Francisco, CA
Date: November 1, 2019
Video: Coming Soon
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics


Event: R-Ladies Chicago and Chicago Data Visualization Community Joint Meetup

Topic: Animation for Effective Data Visualization with R
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: July 24, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/animating_dataviz


Event: REV 2

Topic: Elasticsearch End User Workflows in R and Python
Location: New York, NY
Date: May 23, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/elastic_analytics
Listen to my conversation with Eric Kavanagh on Inside Analytics podcast


Event: satRday Chicago

Topic: Keynote: What Data Science Can Learn From Sociology
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 27, 2019
Video
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/satRdays_chicago_2019


Event: R Package Building Workshop

Topic: 1 day seminar for women and nonbinary folks
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: February 23, 2019
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/r_packages


Event: EARL Roadshow Seattle 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Seattle, WA
Date: November 7, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Event: ODSC East 2018

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Boston, MA
Date: May 3, 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Event: Metis Speaker Series

Topic: R Packages for Team Collaboration
Location: Chicago, IL
Date: April 2018
Links: https://github.com/skirmer/team_collab


Partially Derivative Podcast

May 9, 2017
http://partiallyderivative.com/podcast/2017/05/09/data-science-near-you



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